Configure vSphere Replication (+ SRM) for VMs with PowerCLI

[tinchito7]

Hi community!

I've been tasked with mass-configuring replication of our critical VMs to our DR site using vSphere Replication.

Since there is no way I'm going to do this for ~250 VMs, I was wondering if anyone written/found a script that takes a VM, configures VR to it and adds it to a Protection Group for SRM ?

This will be terribly helpful.

Thanks!

[LucD]

Mark did a post on that a while back, see Wednesday Tidbit: Protect a VM using SRM and PowerCLI

[tinchito7]

Hi Luc,

I came across that post-

Sadly, it only covers one part of the equation: adding the VM to a Protection Group.

It doesn't cover the vSphere Replication configuration for the VM.

[LucD]

Then you might want to have a look at Ben's SRM-cmdlets module.
His New-ProtectionGroup and Protect-VM functions might help.

[tinchito7]

Saw Ben's cmdlets as well.

Same issue, he also states :

For vSphere Replication based protection, the VMs to add to the replication

group. These should already be replicated.

[LucD]

Then I'm afraid you will have to dive into the API yourself.

[davidemiccone]

Hello tinchito7,

have you managed to configure replication from a script?

I have you same problem and I'm surprised that there is no a simple solution for this.

Davide